San Jose Stage Company is recognized as one of the Bay Area's premier theaters, putting on the best in contemporary and classic theater. With this three-show package, you'll be entertained through the fall and into the next year with a trio of shows: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play and The Threepenny Opera. Chad Deity puts the world of professional wrestling on stage, resulting in a serious-minded comedy that's caused a sensation in the theater scene. Then, just in time for Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life brings the American holiday classic to the stage as a 1940s-style live radio broadcast. Finally, get your musical fix with The Threepenny Opera, a brilliantly successful satire of traditional opera that chronicles the crimes of the notorious underworld hero and dashing romantic Macheath, aka Mack the Knife.

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Depending on where you sit, you might find the seat a bit dusty perhaps with some little bit of cobweb or not. But comparatively, it's still cleaner than going to movie theater where people or kids slob over the seat with food, etc.

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“The company that never says never” -_Stark Insider _
Named one of the Top Ten stellar small stages in the Bay Area by the San Jose Mercury News, who said “San Jose Stage made its name for muscular productions of modern classics in its intimate downtown venue.”
“Yet another example of what has made San Jose Stage Company into a South Bay institution…a local jewel”-Metro Silicon Valley

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Plans changed? No worries — complimentary exchange of your tickets*

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Access to discounts at local restaurants

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Subscribers receive priority seating.

_* Free exchange must be made by the day before the reserved performance and must be made for tickets in the same subscription category. _*

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*Package Includes:

The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity: *The acclaimed comedy The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity slams together thrilling spectacle, incredible characters and geopolitical allegory into an invigorating theatrical experience that you can’t find on pay-per-view. Kristoffer Diaz’s play also received the 2011 Obie Award for Best New American Play and the 2008 National Latino Playwriting Award.

“Has the serious crack and pop of a galloping, honest-to-God, all-American satire”– The New York Times

It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play: This beloved American holiday classic comes to captivating life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. An ensemble of Stage Company associate artists brings to the stage the story of idealistic George Bailey, who has given up on his dreams in order to help others and who now considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve, bringing about the intervention of his guardian angel. It’s A Wonderful Life celebrates community at its best and reminds us that we contribute to each other’s happiness and well being, perhaps daily, in ways we might not ever be conscious of. This is the timeless gift of the story and why it continues to resonate so powerfully with us today.*_

_*"Fresh and inventive way of reconnecting with a classic story of love and redemption."– Chicago Sun-Times

“Wonderful, heartwarming and good for the soul” — San Francisco Chronicle

The Threepenny Opera: A milestone of 20th century musical theater, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) rolls on unstoppably into the 21st with absolute relevance in today’s world. In their opera “by and for beggars,” composer Kurt Weill (1900–1950) and playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) created a trailblazing musical spectacle of fierce social and political critique where the haves clash with the have-nots with its haunting jazz score by Kurt Weill, acid harmonies and biting lyrics. This musical saga of the villainous but irresistible Mack the Knife and his marauding band of thieves is a revolutionary musical theatre inspiring such hits as Cabaret (at The Stage in 2011 for an extended run) and Urinetown, The Musical (at The Stage in 2006 for an extended run).

“The kind of theater that shakes up a audience.” – Chicago Daily Herald

“An engaging and biting piece of theatre.” – New York Daily News

About the Ticket Supplier: San Jose Stage Company

Founded in 1983, San Jose Stage Company is a professional theatre company dedicated to producing the works of contemporary playwrights that speak to the conditions, hopes and fears of all mankind.

San Jose Stage operates in their own theatre facility in downtown San Jose. They produce five plays per season on an annual budget of approximately $850,000.00 and serve over 25,000 patrons each season.